Microsoft, and British Telecom have interests in Rogers Communications, which in turn owns Hunter-Maclean Publications, Microcell and the Toronto Blue Jays, the Skydome (Rogers Centre?), and CITYtv stations across Canada.

CEO Nadir Mohammed, born in Tanzania, Ismaili Muslim, has been written up in Bloomberg Business Week as one of the World's most successful immigrants, holds a degree from UBC, joined Rogers in 2000.